Chlorophytum

Chlorophytum

a genus of perennial herbs of the family Liliaceae. The stem is short, and the roots are thickened and sometimes tuberous. The lily-shaped, lanceolate, or oval leaves are in a radical rosette. The small, white, inconspicuous flowers are three-parted and in racemes. The fruit is a trihedral capsule. In some species the flower stalk bears the vegetative buds from which daughter plants develop. One such species is the hanging houseplant C. comosum, some forms of which have white stripes on the leaves.

An efficient in vitro multiplication system in Chlorophytum arundinaceum has also been established and the genetic fidelity was assessed using RAPDs, karyotype analysis and meiotic behavior of in vitro and in vivo plants (Latoo et' al.

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